Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception, 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is the story of how the British really won two world wars - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and bluffing their way out of trouble. Pretend German radio stations broadcast outrageous British propaganda in German. British geniuses broke German secret codes and eavesdropped on their messages. Ev ...Show more
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, in a beautiful hardback edition. Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1 ...Show more
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents, Isabella and Ferdinand, the joint-rulers of Spain who had dri ...Show more
The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783 by Jane Brown
$58.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown's influ ...Show more
Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog – A Funny and Heartbreaking Worldwide Bestseller by John Grogan
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THAT MOVED DOG LOVERS ALL OVER THE WORLD **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING OWEN WILSON AND JENNIFER ANISTON** 'A book with intense appeal . . . tenderly follows its subject from sunrise to sunset' New York Times 'Not just a funny dog story . . . It's a universal st ...Show more
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned by Michael J. Fox
$25.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Michael J. Fox inspires and motivates his readers to work hard, achieve the most they can and maximise their abilities - with optimism, warmth and humour. From learning to cope first with the death of his father and then with his own diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, MJF shares what he's learned about l ...Show more
The Architect of Kokoda: Bert Kienzle - The Man Who Made the Kokoda Track by Robyn Kienzle
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
If one person 'made' the Kokoda Track, that man was Bert Kienzle. Part Samoan and German/English, born in Fiji and raised in Germany and Australia, he was managing a rubber plantation and gold mine in Papua New Guinea at the outbreak of World War II. He surveyed and established the Track, and spent more ...Show more
The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw by Sheila Hancock
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart. John Thaw was born in Manchest ...Show more
Have A Little Faith by Mitch Albom
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Will you do my eulogy? With those words, Mitch Albom begins his long-awaited return to non-fiction. His journey to honour the last request of a beloved clergyman ultimately leads him to rekindle his own long-ignored faith. Albom spends years exploring churches and synagogues, the suburbs and the city, t ...Show more
Manstein: Hitler's Greatest General by Mungo Melvin
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The story of the military genius Field Marshal Erich von Manstein chronicles the misguided generation of German generals in the Second World War who claimed they fought for Germany, not for Hitler and National Socialism. The polished, urbane von Manstein was no uncouth Nazi. He persuaded the British wri ...Show more
Hugh Trevor-Roper : The Biography by Adam Sisman
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Hugh Trevor-Roper's life is a rich subject for a biography - with elements of Greek tragedy, comedy and moments of high farce. Clever, witty and sophisticated, Trevor-Roper was the most brilliant historian of his generation. Until his downfall, he seemed to have everything: wealth and connections, a cha ...Show more
Giant George by Dave Nasser & Lynne Barrett-Lee
$32.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 2006, Dave and Christie Nasser welcomed a Great Dane puppy into their lives - the runt of a litter of thirteen who won over the hearts of his new owners with his soulful blue eyes. They named him George and he swiftly changed their lives. In February 2010 George was officially crowned tallest dog eve ...Show more